Cannot connect to mythbackend
Submitted by rothgar on May 24, 2006 - 12:10pm
The installation went ok (besides never being asked for a root password) and myth-setup seemed to run fine. I ran mythfilldatabase after changing all the settings and when I tried starting mythfrontend and watching live tv I received the error that mythfrontend could not connect to the backend. I tried starting mythbackend manually but I may be doing something wrong. Is there something I can check to make sure it is running?
I double checked the ip settings in mythfrontend (127.0.0.1) and everything looks fine but it still cannot connect.
Please help me out. This looks like a answer to a lot of my problems :)
it connects
I did a quick reinstall (thank you so much for making it so easy!!)
and now the backend starts up no problem and the frontend connects. I still cannot watch live TV though.
I have a Fusion HDTV5 Gold+ trying to get HD through QAM on my cable. On my windows box all of the channels show up as QAM(256) and I have about 100 non encrypted channels.
I tried scanning for channels and had quite a few of them show as locked but when I go to watch live tv the frontend just crashes. It is sad because I have had this problem with every distro and mythtv I have tried. My card is supposed to be supportet out of the box but I have yet to have anything in linux sucessfully use the card.
In mythtv-setup I set the card as a DVB card (because others have said they have success that way) and it shows all of the inputs correctly for the card but I still have no picture.
If anyone can help with this problem or has this card I would definatly appreciate it.
I really am not familiar with Fedora but so far I am really liking it.
Well the good thing is that
Well the good thing is that it's recognized in mythtvsetup. One thing you can try is this script that is supposed to work really well on the qam stuff as it looks like mythtv has some trouble doing some scanning. Run this as root and make sure the correct permissions are given.
http://www.tux.org/~peterw/linux/qamscan.sh.txt
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
You never get asked what the
You never get asked what the root password is as there isn't a reason to. And you don't need to start mythfrontend as this does this for you automatically. If not, then your install went really bad and I would then reinstall again. Mythbackend starts up for you automatically. There is no reason at all to start this manually. If you have to then I would reinstall as I said.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
bad install maybe
I am guessing something just went horribly wrong, I have tried restarting a couple of times and letting everything start automatically like you said it should. But I still get the error.
without having a root password is there any way to start the backend manually (if for some reason it crashes?)
Well the root password is
Well the root password is "mythtv". So if you want to start it manually then start it as root. But I'm almost positive that if the backend isn't starting on it's own then something more serious is wrong as well. A reinstall is your best bet.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
Type:
Type:
su -
password mythtv
/etc/rc5.d/S86mythbackend restart
see if that helps
thanks for the tip
thanks for the tip
I guess that means I will have to reinstall seeing as the installation never asked me for a root password. I have tried every password I could think of (even blank) but nothing will let me log in as root.
You only get asked for a
You only get asked for a password if you do a custom install. Auto install does this for you. And I thought "mythtv" as the password would be really easy.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
it was easy
that root password was really easy.
just not idiot proof :)
what did you change?
What did you change in mythtv-setup? Did you change any of the port, hostname , or ip settings? You mentioned that you checked the mythfrontend settings, but it wont help if the mythbackend setup has been completely changed.
Im betting that you have changed some ip or port setting in mythtv-setup, because if its letting you get into mythfrontend and into the fronteds setup (this is all handled by the backend, not the frontend), the mySQL server is working fine, which would indicate that something simple is the cause of your problem.